The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-11-25
STRAY BITS.

The Daily Dinner Horn is the name of a
new paper at Paris, Tex.
A row round ireland in an open boat has
been attempted by vcnturesome sailor who
started from Belfast Tough recently.
Asilvcr haired patron of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, who has lived there for
twenty-five years. claims that in that time
his lodging and meals have cost him 800, 600.
The Alaskan Indian is re-eminently the
dude Of his race. He is always clad in hand
some furs or blankets, and carries walking
stick which is often beautiful specimen Of
elaborate carving.
The man who blows the cornet in rural
brass band down in Maine is six feet and ten
inches tall, and the band is looking for
drum major that won't look like midget
prancing in front of him.
The Jackson (NIich.) police force. sixteen in
number, weighs 2,Ss2 pounds, is $40 years
old and "a feet in height. Its feet are 800
inches in length, it wears n size 11G hat and
has 527 buttons on its clothing.
Mosquitoes in China havo very poisonous
sting. In Tientsin hospital there were at
| ono time last summer man with an abscess
in his face and another with blood poisoning
| from the bite of the insects
| The forfeited railroad grant in Michigan
held by fraud for nearly thirty years is being
| pre-empted with a rush. L'Allse is nearly
depopulated. Even the editor of its one
paper has dropped his shears and gono into
| the wilderness
Two families occupying the same house in
Wallingford, Conn.,, fought long and bitterly
until the woman on the first floor burned
feathers and cayenne pepper. Then the
! woman on the second floor capitulated and
moved out
The original Bartlett pear trees, named
| after Enoch Bartlett, still stand on his
grounds, near Boston, and are over fifty
years old. Twenty years ago new top was
grated upon these old trees and they still
bear fine fruit.
A letter addressed to 'sthe best lawyer" in
Washington was received q fcw days ago
from a man in jefferson, Tex, who wanted
to get an opinion Oh some original poems
which he inclosed. Poets have to proceed
cautiously in Texas.
The Klamath Indians have built up con-
siderable carrying trade along the Pacific
coast In their large canoes, hewn out of the
solid trunks Of immense trees, they carry
dairy and farm products for the settlers and
return with groceries and other supplies.
| At Barre, VT, is being quarried an i'm
mense block of granite to be used in Cali
fornia bank vault 1t is to be twenty y-fve
feet long, five feet thick and five feet wide,
and it will require thirty span of horses to
draw it four miles to the railroad station.
An English lock maker claims to have per-
fected door that can be used in public
buildings that will lessen the chances Of ac-
cident in times of panic or real danger. It
can be opened from the outside only by a
key, but a slight pressure from within
causes it to swing open outward.
Many years ago the grounds whereon the
Atlanta expositic:, now stands was sold to
Mr.. Miles Dobbins, Of Cobb county, for
s400. This year the 1917 acres were sold to
tue Piedmont stock company for s42, ,OOO
This shows the increase of values in real
estate in and about Atlanta.
The Pitcairn islanders, the descendants of
British mutineers, still live happily and are
prosperous. A shipwrecked man from the
United States has married one of the natives
The islanders still keep the old country names,
Young, AIcEvoy and Christian, and want
little except nails and fish hooks.
A passenger Oh Georgia railroad, with a
ticket to Waters Station, found that the train
would not stop there. After appealing in
| vain to tho conductor, he went to the front
platform of tho rear coach, drew out the
| coupling pin, set the brake, and, when the
car slackened its speed, jumped of into the
darkness. 1t was not until the train reached
Sylvania, some distance beyond, that the loss
of the car was discovered.
Tho largest orange ever produced in Flor
ida has been plucked from Gardner S. Har-
dee's grove in Brevard county. The variety
is known as the London navel. The orange
was 1871 inches in circumference and
weighed exactly two pounds and two ounces.
This specimen was not a grape fruit or pome,
Or any other overgrown variety Of the citrus
family aside from the orange, but was bona
flde orange in every respect.
The Congressional library at Washington
will cover III 600 square feet, more than two
and a half acres. Mr. S:nithmeyer, to whom
the library has been intrusted, has carried
on says The American Architect, elaborate
tests of tho resisting power of the soil ON
which it will stand. A loaded car was
brought to bear on the earth of the exca-
waited trenches in such I. way as to prove
that the resistance was equal to thirteen and
half tons to the square foot. As tho esti-
mated weight Of the building is between two
and three tons to the square foot, the chances
Of subsidence of walls and consequent dis
nsters are reduced to Il minimum The Ger
man parliament house covers 10000 square
feet, the Royal library at Munich 09,0O0
the library of the British museum 81 600
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